Abstract
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a novel class of materials created by combining polymeric solids with stiff, rod-like molecules known as nematic mesogens. These materials exhibit large, reversible deformations under mechanical, thermal, and optical stimuli. In this work, we develop a nonlinear beam formulation for analyzing the finite elastic deformation of beam-like structures made of LCEs under photo-actuation. This formulation applies to ideal, non-ideal, isotropic genesis, and nematic genesis LCEs. We establish the variational form of the problem based on the principle of virtual work. To solve numerical examples, we also develop a nonlinear finite element formulation based on B-spline functions. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed formulation.
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